Reply To: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation

The Kol Aryeh explains that Nadav V’avihu died because of their closeness to Hashem as it says בקרבתם לפני ה וימותו. The neshamah wants to escape the body and escape to Hashem. There are two things that hold it back. One, fear getting close to the holy throne. Two, if the yetzer hora is involved when someone follows a mitzvah. Over here, there was no mitzvah. There whole deed was done completely from love and therefore there neshama escaped.